Former Postal Service manager from Odenton gets 8 years in drug scheme

A former U.S. Postal Service station manager from Odenton was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Monday for his role in a bribery and drug scheme in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.

Deenvaughn Rowe, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan for his role directing the scheme at the River Terrace Carrier Annex, a postal facility in Washington. Rowe was also ordered to serve four years probation and fined $64,000.

The scheme involved USPS workers delivering hundreds of pounds of marijuana to people in Washington, D.C., for cash bribes.

Chutkan sentenced two of Rowe’s co-conspirator, Kendra Brantley, 32, and Alicia Norman, 39, both of D.C., to 46 months and 18 months in prison for delivering boxes of marijuana while acting as letter carriers.

Rowe used his postal service computer to track packages of marijuana shipped from the Western United States with fake names and addresses to a post office in D.C. Authorities also said Norman and Brantly delivered the boxes of marijuana to “men in expensive cars” for cash bribes.